How To Make Paper Fiesta Flowers For Hanging

Ready to make a festive paper flower garland for your next fiesta? Here are step-by-step directions with photos to help you make decorative paper flower pom-poms which can be hung on a string, from the ceiling, on tree branches or wherever you like! (It’s a great craft to do with your niños!)

How To Make Paper Fiesta Flowers

What you need:

Crepe paper (Tissue paper will probably work but that isn’t what I used.)
Wire (Small children may feel more comfortable working with pipe cleaners.)
String
Scissors

Directions:

1. Cut 4 sheets of crepe paper to the same length. (Mine were about 9 1/2 inches by 22 inches.) As I mentioned above, this will probably work with tissue paper but I use crepe paper because it’s stronger, doesn’t tear as easily, and has a little added texture compared to tissue paper.

2. With the sheets of paper lined up on top of each other, fold width-wise in 1 1/2 inch fan/accordion style folds.

3. Secure in the middle with a length of wire about 7 inches long. Don’t secure it so tightly that you crush the paper too much. (It should now look like a bow tie.)

4. Spread out the fan folds.

5. Carefully separate each layer. Fluff and adjust as needed on each side so it is round in shape.

6. Secure the wire to a long length of string. Repeat until you have the garland as long as you want it.

Oh, yes! Endless possibilities. You can imagine my excitement. Part of me wishes I were still in the classroom, so my students could “run with it” for Charro Days, an annual festival around the start of Lent in Brownsville, TX.

It’s a popular craft in the classroom I see! … My suegra used to make them (and sell them, I believe), but hers were a bit different than these. She liked to twist in little stamen in the center and cut the paper so the petals took on different shapes. There are a lot of variations!

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